In Morris Lapidus: An Architecture of Joy (Rizzoli, $65) , Deborah Desilets captures more than 50 years of exuberant and original architecture. Lapidus enthusiastically embraced modernism’s formal freedom and sensuality while rejecting its more rigid principles, producing a unique style that seamlessly blends baroque fantasia with modernism’s clean lines and flowing spaces. In 2000 Lapidus was honored by the Cooper-Hewitt as an "American Original," an award created especially for him. He invented the postwar resort hotel with the Fontainebleau and the Eden Roc in Miami Beach, and his iconic buildings in New York, Miami Beach, the Caribbean, and beyond, prove that "too much is never enough." 7:30pm